Research faster.
Cite everything.
Miss nothing.
Sidebar reads your case files, finds relevant decisions on CanLII, and builds citation-backed answers — so every response you get is grounded in your documents and real case law.
Get Started
See it on your own case files.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough and we'll show you Sidebar running on a case like yours — citations, CanLII research, and all.
The Problem
Law firms run on documents. Finding answers shouldn't take hours.
Buried in PDFs
Associates spend hours manually searching hundreds of pages per case — re-reading the same exhibits, briefs, and filings just to find a single date or clause.
Finding precedent shouldn’t take all day
Finding relevant case law means hours on CanLII — scanning decisions, checking citations, reading headnotes. By the time you find what you need, half the day is gone.
Generic AI isn’t enough
ChatGPT doesn’t know your documents, your clients, or your filing deadlines. General-purpose AI hallucinates when it matters most — in legal work.
How It Works
Set up in a day. Running in the background forever.
Import your case files
Drop in your briefs, exhibits, correspondence, scans — whatever you've got. Sidebar reads and indexes everything automatically. Connect Google Drive or OneDrive to import directly from the cloud.
Ask questions in plain English
Query a single case or search across your entire document library. Ask about deadlines, clauses, case history, or anything in your files.
Get cited answers, instantly
Every response cites the exact file name and page number — so you can open the source document in seconds and verify the answer yourself.
No Hallucinations
Every answer is backed by a source. If it can't cite it, it doesn't say it.
The biggest risk with AI in legal work is fabricated information. Sidebar is built from the ground up to eliminate that risk.
Document-grounded responses
Sidebar only answers from what it can find in your uploaded case files. Every claim includes a citation with the exact file name and page number, so you can verify it in seconds. If the answer isn't in your documents, Sidebar tells you that instead of guessing.
CanLII case law verification
When Sidebar references case law, it checks against the CanLII database — Canada's official open legal information institute. Citations are linked to real decisions with real docket numbers. If a citation can't be confirmed, Sidebar flags it rather than passing it off as fact.
Your data never leaves your control
Documents are stored on your firm's private instance — not uploaded to a shared cloud or used to train models. Case files stay where they belong: with you.
Case Research
Find relevant CanLII decisions for your case — automatically.
Sidebar connects directly to the CanLII API to search Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, IRB, and Supreme Court decisions. It reads your case file, identifies the legal issues, and finds comparable decisions — scored by relevance to your specific facts.
Smart keyword extraction
Sidebar reads your case summary and extracts search terms automatically — legal concepts, IRPA sections, grounds for claim, country conditions. No more manually guessing which keywords to try on CanLII.
Relevance scoring & analysis
Each result is scored for relevance to your case and tagged — favorable, unfavorable, similar facts, similar issue, or distinguishable. You see immediately which decisions matter and why.
Citation network exploration
Click into any result to see which cases it cites, which cases cite it, and the legislation it references — using CanLII's citator data. Follow the citation trail to build a stronger argument.
Multiple court databases
Searches run across Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Canada, the Immigration & Refugee Board, and the College of Immigration Consultants — all at once, all from one interface.
Case Intelligence
AI-generated case summaries and action roadmaps.
Upload your case documents and Sidebar reads every page — then produces a structured summary, detects the case type, and generates a step-by-step roadmap of what needs to happen next.
Who It's For
Built for firms like yours.
Small firms
You’re the lawyer, the researcher, and the admin. Sidebar means research takes minutes, not hours — so you can focus on your clients.
Growing firms
Take on more cases without adding headcount. Let associates spend time on strategy, not searching PDFs.
The overwhelmed
You didn’t go to law school to ctrl+F through PDFs. Sidebar handles the digging so you can focus on strategy, advocacy, and your clients.
Ready to stop searching
and start answering?
See how Sidebar can change the way your firm works in a 15-minute walkthrough.
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